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Baron Wormser: Active Shooter

He could see something was out of whack. 

March 2, 2023 · 6 Comments

Sonali Kolhatkar: Abolishing the Nation’s Largest Jail System

L.A. County activists are working to replace violent jails with mental health facilities, and to reallocate funding from incarceration toward social services.

December 20, 2022 · 1 Comment

Michael Simms: God, Poetry and Trauma

In the 19th century, if you asked a scientist whether he believed in God, he would have answered, ‘Of course, I don’t believe in God, I’m a scientist.” But if you ask a scientist today whether he believes in God, he would answer, “Of course, I believe in God, I’m a scientist.”

October 22, 2022 · 21 Comments

John Clare: The Instinct of Hope

Is there another world for this frail dust
To warm with life and be itself again?

July 8, 2022 · 10 Comments

Patricia A. Nugent: Father with a Gun

Years working in human resources convinced me that no school employee should have a gun. Period. 

July 5, 2022 · 5 Comments

Wendy Mnookin: In the Small Rotary

where Route 100 meets School Street,
two cows graze.

March 2, 2022 · 1 Comment

Joseph E Davis: Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’ — it’s people in distress

The idea that one’s distress is primarily caused by a neurochemical deficiency that can be corrected by a drug is a fiction. The idea that it explains first-person experience or that it offers some exemption from responsibility is a fiction as well.

March 15, 2021 · 5 Comments

Stephen Dobyns: Leaf Blowers

That autumn morning he awoke to the crying
of lost souls that quickly changed to the roar
of leaf blowers up and down the street

November 5, 2020 · 8 Comments

Liz Moran: (Harper’s Bazaar)

I watched her for ten long minutes
in Barnes & Noble.

August 22, 2020 · 3 Comments

Michelle Bitting: Walls

Worst I had to deal with, well, I suppose that time my son was shut in a padded room and shit himself at the special needs school. He was 13 and having one helluva wiring crisis. I got called to come get him after he graffitied his feces across white walls.

June 1, 2020 · 2 Comments

Elena Karina Byrne: Reality may still be unacceptable Gerhard Richter

A Repeating Dream I’m Belly-Down at Eleven
beneath barbwire like bedsprings during night-climbs

September 2, 2019 · 1 Comment

Jon Queally: Just Hours After Anti-Semitic Remarks, Trump Promotes Himself as ‘King of Israel… Second Coming of God’

“The President is a raving lunatic,” responded Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum. “He is not well.”

August 22, 2019 · 2 Comments

Leslie McGrath: Litany

Each day’s a train bound for Calgary, St. Paul, Santa Fe, its flickering windows a foreign film. The doors will never open. But the tracks will beckon. You’ll lay your … Continue reading

October 13, 2017 · Leave a comment

Leslie McGrath: Her Dementia

I walk the earth and have forgotten
which memory’s mine and which is not
and who was she I used to be.

September 20, 2017 · 3 Comments

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